Sir Keir Kisses Up to Cousins

SteynonLine ^ | March 9, 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

snip...Headline from The Daily Telegraph:

'I treat children with life-limiting conditions from cousin marriages – but we can't talk about it'

Well, maybe you should have have figured that out and talked about it last decade or the decade before that. The former Tory minister Richard Holden has now introduced a bill that proposes to ban the marriage of first cousins. Sir Keir Starmer, with an eye to his marginal seats, has declared that his party will vote it down.

As I wrote a decade-and-a-half ago, in my international bestseller After America, looking back at our own age from a few years hence:

The new Europe is an unhealthier continent. I am not speaking metaphorically. By the beginning of the 21st century, in the city of Bradford, 75 per cent of Pakistani Britons were married to their first cousins. Even the neanderthal racists warning against the horrors of mass immigration in the late 1960s never thought to predict that in the Yorkshire grade-school classes of the early 21st century a majority of the pupils would be the children of first cousins.

Yet it happened.

The western elites stuck till the end to their view of man as homo economicus, no matter how obvious it was that cultural identity is a primal indicator that mere economic liberty cannot easily trump. If a man is a Muslim mill worker, which is more central to his identity – that he is a Muslim or that he works in a mill? So the mill closed down, and the Muslim remained, and arranged for his British-born sons to marry cousins imported from the old country, and so a short-term need for manual labor in the mid-twentieth century led to Yorkshire adopting Mirpuri marriage customs.

[A_perfect_lady]

Going to make the Hapsburg Chin look like child’s play.

[Katya]

check how many states allow first cousin marriage in the US...

[x]

Something I (and a lot of other people) didn't know (assuming it's actually true):

[Twotone]

I wonder how often it happens here in the USA. If it was creating the issues it obviously is in the UK, it’s a practice that should be banned.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[JSM_Liberty]

Marriage between first cousins is legal in multiple US states.

[Gay State Conservative]

Eddie Izzard...a great British comedian...released a DVD some years ago called "Dressed To Kill". It's a video of a concert he did in San Francisco. He touched on many topics...including the British royal family. He went on about how stupid and clueless they were and at one point he says something like "well,that's what happens when cousins marry".

Classic stuff....IIRC it's on youtube if anyone has some free time.

[gwjack]

So, to slightly twist one of my favorite jokes to ask someone from Arkansas, “If a husband and wife get divorced in California, are they still first cousins?”

Gwjack

[hanamizu]

Marriage between first cousins is legal in multiple US states.

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And because states are obliged to recognize the official acts of other states (except for concealed-carry permits, of course) cousins married where it’s legal, are legally married in every state.

[vaskypilot]

According to the map, many of the states are former English colonies. I wonder if the current law is based on laws from 250 years ago. I grew up in NJ where a great aunt had married her first cousin back in the 1930s. When I was growing up in the 1970s the marriage was still treated as a scandal.

[PGR88]

Having a future enemy with sub 80 IQs and who are majority retarded will at least make them easy to defeat.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Would be better if we made the parents of the inbred m*****s personally responsible for providing care for their offspring at our standards, rather than having the welfare state draft care from the innocent, productive part of the population for that. Our feedback currently makes the trend worse. While they harvest those sub 80s to expend as cheap jihadis.